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November 15, 2010       Share:    

Source: http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=195200

Why Is Life Expectancy in Israel So High?

(Jerusalem Post) Amnon Rubinstein - The UN Development Program places Israel in 10th place for life expectancy, above Norway, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the U.S. As sociologist Oz Almog notes, Israelis lead a longer active life than their peers in other countries. Perhaps this is why Israelis accepted with equanimity the postponement of the right to pension from 65 to 67 for men and 60 to 62 for women, and why they cannot comprehend the French rage against the postponement of the retirement age to 62. The writer, a professor of law at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, is a former Israeli minister of education.

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